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Updated August, 2008 |
The Advancing the State of the Art in Community Benefit (ASACB) demonstration brings together a diverse group of 70 hospitals in California, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada to develop and implement a series of uniform standards to align hospital governance, management, and operations, and to make optimal use of limited charitable resources to address unmet health-related needs.
The ASACB demonstration is administered through the Public Health Institute, a private, nonprofit research, technical assistance, and training organization based in Oakland, California.
ASACB's work is designed to shift traditional views about nonprofit hospitals' community benefit contributions from a focus on uncompensated costs (i.e., charity care) to one that considers community benefit contributions as returns on the investments by public and community stakeholders.
The ASACB website is a place to get acquainted with the basic ideas of the project and to find information about the people and organizations involved. (The site is hosted by HRET's Association for Community Health Improvement, which is under contract to help with the dissemination of effective tools and practices from the demonstration.)
More detail about the project is available in the ASACB User's Guide to Excellence and Accountability. The User's Guide and ASACB's future work will help nonprofit hospital trustees, senior executive leadership, and professional staff to pursue the maximum health benefit for each dollar invested by their stakeholders.
